If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
BARBARA SHERThe amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.
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Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
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Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you’re in action. Ask yourself, “Does this go toward or away from what I want?” There’s an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.
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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can’t have it all at once and you can’t have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
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Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
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Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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